Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles-Jets preseason game

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Clayton Thorson is hit by New York Jets cornerback Arthur Maulet during the second half.

Well that was some of the worst professional football I've ever seen. In the ultra-meaningless yearly fourth preseason game between the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets, the Jets won 6-0, and frankly, it was somehow less exciting than the score would indicate. As always, we have 10 awards.

3) The 'Butterfingers' Award: Wendell Smallwood

In the first quarter of a game in which he was trying to perhaps impress other teams around the league, Smallwood fumbled. Not good.

Out of curiosity, I looked to see how many fumbles Smallwood has lost over his career, and to my surprise, he has only lost one, in 2016 against the Cowboys. (Technically, on the stat sheet he also lost one against the Buccaneers last year, but that was in an end-of-game desperation lateral situation.)

And thus concludes the "useless Wendell Smallwood information" section of this game recap.

4) The 'Cringe Emoji' Award: Clayton Thorson

At various points throughout training camp and the preseason, we've seen "OMG WHAT IS THAT" Thorson, and "Hey, he looks like a passable NFL quarterback" Thorson. Thursday night was more definitely the former. Thorson finished 12 of 26 for 84 yards, 0 TD, a pick, and a QB rating of 38.0. The pick was bad, but you could have picked a half-dozen or so throws that were arguably worse.

If there's a silver lining here, it's that if the Eagles want to bring Thorson back to the practice squad, it's unlikely some other team is going to claim him if they watch his preseason tape.

He was still better than Cody Kessler though.

5) The 'Other Kickers Around the League Are Awful' Award: Taylor Bertolet, Kaare Vedvic, Eddy Pineiro, and probably some others

Bertolet, the Jets' kicker after Chandler Catanzaro retired a couple weeks ago, missed three field goals. He's not alone. After trading a fifth-round pick to the Ravens for Kaare Vedvik, the Vikings have watched Vedvid miss all three of his field goal attempts this preseason.